20. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Current cap space: $79,894,844
Primary free agents: QB Jameis Winston, EDGE Shaquil Barrett, RT Demar Dotson, WR Breshad Perriman, DL Ndamukong Suh, DE Jason Pierre-Paul, OLB Carl Nassib, RB Peyton Barber
Bucs head coach Bruce Arians has always employed a “no risk-it, no biscuit” philosophy, which is to say that he wants his quarterbacks to turn it loose in the vertical game with big plays as the result. Problem with Jameis Winston is, the big plays happen too often for the other team. In 2019, Winston infamously became the first quarterback in NFL history to throw 30 touchdowns and 30 interceptions in the same season. Per the Elias Sports Bureau, opponents scored a league-high 112 points off those picks, and that included seven pick-sixes, the most for any quarterback in a single season in NFL history.
What to do now that Winston is a free agent? Tampa Bay has an amazing corps of receivers and a vastly improved defense under coordinator Todd Bowles, but if Winston keeps hurling biscuits all over the field, none of that will matter. Arians has defended his quarterback to a point, insisting that not all the interceptions were Winston’s fault — but as the season wore on, he also bemoaned the regression. Will Arians take another shot on the guy who threw for 5,109 yards, the eighth-highest single-season total ever, or go after a quarterback who can risk it with fewer ancillary headaches?